"As a leader in scientific research to improve patient care, we require a technology infrastructure that can help us evaluate medical advances while eliminating costly, time-consuming manual operations," said Reinoud Reynders, IT manager, Infrastructure and Operations, University Hospitals Leuven. "The intelligent technologies built into the HP ProLiant Gen8 servers automate most of these tasks, saving us hours of administration time and decreasing operational expenses."

HP also is adding AMD Opteron 6200 Series processor support to its HP ProLiant Gen8 line-up, with:

HP ProLiant DL385p, a 2U performance-based rack server designed for virtualisation, database and high performance computing workloads; and the HP ProLiant BL465c Gen8, one of the first server blades with 2,000 cores per rack for virtualisation, database and high-performance workloads.

The HP ProLiant family of scale-up servers also will add support for the Intel Xeon E5-4600 processor in new, density-optimised form factors for both blade and rack servers. These will begin shipping in volume in the summer.